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An occurrence; something that happens.
- In the event of strong wind…
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A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
- Where will the event be held?
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One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
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An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
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A remarkable person.datedfigurativelyuncommon
- Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
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A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
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A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
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A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
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An affair in hand; business; enterprise.obsolete
- Leave we him to his events.
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An episode of severe health conditions.
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To occur, take place.obsolete
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of Eng
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To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.intransitiveobsolete
- c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178, ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold The place from whence that scal
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To expose to the air, ventilate.obsoletetransitive
- 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen &
- 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe), […] as Phœbus throws His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d, Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d A loose and r